The ROI of Fatherhood
Leaning into fatherhood is an investment the US does not make. That much is clear in study after study, no matter how we cut the data, as in this article by Emanuella Grinberg, CNN. The question is why? The answer is because we haven't made the value/return on that...
Do Working Moms’ Children Suffer?
We are constantly reminded that research is only as good as the questions we ask and as imperfect as any other human endeavor. Research design is prone to misleading reductionism as well. The research highlighted in this blog post by Polly Toynbee in The Guardian is...
You Know You’re Not Alone When….You Spend Time with Ashoka
http://youtu.be/4X4inLUWfAk I had the pleasure and honor of attending and speaking at the 2013 Ashoka Future Forum http://www.ashokafutureforum.com/ in Washington, D.C. last week. Amazing, humbling, inspiring. View slides here: jacho_Currency (FINAL - compatibility...
Empathy is a Contact Sport…Bleeding Hearts Need Not Apply
Paul Bloom gives important and eloquent voice to the critics of “empathy” in his recent piece in the New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2013/05/20/130520crat_atlarge_bloom?currentPage=all&mobify=0 I read it with great interest, respect, and...
Focus on Empathy and Identity to Stem the Violence of Young Men
Thank goodness Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19 years old, is off the streets of Boston and alive. It's a relief that justice will be served for the people who have died and were wounded, which was palpable in the spontaneous cheering at his capture. It will take us a while to...
How Do We Get More Women in Science? – Wrong Question
Nature recently dedicated an entire issue to exploring how we can get more women in science. As an MIT chemistry PhD and former McKinsey partner with 2 decades of experience helping scientific and other clients grow and innovate, I have a slightly different view on...
How Hands-on Parenting Makes Me a Better Leader
Part I: What I Have Learned from My Children Part I is being published simultaneously by Whitney Johnson, author of Dare, Dream, Do. Click HERE to read Part I, then continue… *** Part II: Who are Our Leaders Now? Within current organizational constructs, is it...
How Do You Teach Empathy?
CEO Toby Cosgrove, MD, showed this video, titled "Empathy," to the Cleveland Clinic staff during his 2013 State of the Clinic address on Feb. 27, 2013. Dr. Jim Merlino, Chief Experience Officer at the Clinic recently shared it with me. It's only 4 minutes and 24...
Resilient Leaders Don’t Go it Alone
“The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.” - Martin Luther King Jr. *** I had the pleasure of attending the YWCA Resilient Leaders conference yesterday in Cleveland....
Have You Hugged an Intrapraneur Today?
There are those of us who pull our weight in traditional roles in existing organizations, doing the best we can to make a positive difference and earn a living. There are those of us who hold our breath and jump....into the waters of entrepreneurship and...
Lean In to the Debate
People are taking issue with Sheryl Sandberg's privileged position as she encourages women to Lean In . That's not what bothers me though, and in some ways is a red herring...a means to divide women, yet again (rich vs poor as we've long done with stay-at-home vs...
Empathy and Power – Servant Leadership
Is the Queen Bee our feminine ideal of leadership? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323884304578328271526080496.html?mod=googlenews_wsj No, what Peggy Drexler described in the "Tyranny of the Queen Bee" in Saturday's Wall Street Journal is a caricature...
